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  Cancel culture is not compatible with democratic norms
Democracy protects the majority against a minority. "Cancel culture" does the same. They are bedfellows.

Liberalism is what protects a minority against the majority.

Liberal Democracy strikes a balance between them. Typically the majority gets to determine who is in charge (democracy), and enshrined legal protections protect minorities from the bias and wrath of the mob (liberalism).

If someone insults people or breaks norms, and there's a lot of blow back, it doesn't surprise me. Few people complain that they are forbidden from walking the streets nude with a raging erection. The majority doesn't want that kind of freedom of expression.

What this has to do with social media companies, don't ask me. I mainly care about the ability of people to make arguments without the government locking them up.



> Democracy protects the majority against a minority.

Isn't that the other way around? The laws (and more importantly, the rule of law) are in place to prevent the tyranny of the majority?


  Democracy protects the majority against a minority.
The minority in this case typically being a powerful minority, like an aristocracy. Democracy is a show of hands. If we outnumber you, we get our way.

  The laws (and more importantly, the rule of law) are in place to prevent the tyranny of the majority?
That is another way to phrase what I wrote, no? Yes, even when we are unpopular, we still have legal 'rights'.


> Liberalism is what protects a minority against the majority.

> Liberal Democracy strikes a balance between them. Typically the majority gets to determine who is in charge (democracy), and enshrined legal protections protect minorities from the bias and wrath of the mob (liberalism).




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